2018 Seattle Mariners Thread

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

Mariners execs faced workplace complaints; three women received settlements

https://www.seattletimes.com/sports/mariners/mariners-executives-kept-jobs-after-3-women-left-with-workplace-complaint-settlements/

Edit:    Apparently no complaints since 2010, where it looks like perhaps the course was corrected(?)  

 

 

Edited July 25, 2018 by MC Fresh Breath

[Biff Tannen 45696]

Day game.  And it appears our pitching staff is falling apart.  If Paxton doesn't come back next start and Felix gets lit up again, man, that could be the end of a nice run this year.

[miguelito 11266]

Another 1-run win.

And another stupid Rangers loss after giving up 5 unanswered to the A's.

[miguelito 11266]

Fucking Felix.

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

 

 

For quite a few years, Felix was one of the only reasons to watch.  But at this point he is certainly a liability.  

Edited July 29, 2018 by MC Fresh Breath

[miguelito 11266]

Yeah.  "Last couple of times out."

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

https://streamable.com/lslat

 

[Biff Tannen 45696]

6 hours ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

https://streamable.com/lslat

 

That's a shame.  You know what else is a shame?  The A's are fucking making a run and the Astros are losing and we aren't doing a got damn thing.

[Biff Tannen 45696]

This is a fun first inning though.  7-0 M's.

[miguelito 11266]

That's probably enough to outscore the Seahawks.  Hey-oh!

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

Wonder if Dipoto makes a move prior to trade deadline.

 

[Biff Tannen 45696]

Big series.  Let's hope Paxton is all the way back tonight.

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

 

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

Was kind of hoping for another starter, Jerry.

 

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

 

[miguelito 11266]

Maybe M's fans can use those leftover K's from Felix's start to keep track of Mariner batter strikeouts. 

4 in 2 innings so far.

[miguelito 11266]

6 through 3 innings 

[Biff Tannen 45696]

Big series.  Let's hope Paxton is all the way back tonight.

That'll do.

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

World Series assured

 

 

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

Well, that sucked. 

 

 

[spystud13 2371]

6-hole for the new guy against Keuchel. 

• 2B Dee Gordon L
• SS Jean Segura R
• DH Nelson Cruz R
• RF M. Haniger R
• 1B Ryon Healy R
• CF C. Maybin R
• C Mike Zunino R
• 3B A. Romine B
• LF G. Heredia R

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

Many Mariners fans puzzled that they sent down Gamel instead of Heredia.

[spystud13 2371]

That lineup shows exactly why. You start Maybin & Heredia against lefties, Span in LF & either righty in CF the other days. Gamel can’t really play CF, so he’s a 5th OF right now that isn’t needed. The Span trade is what fucked him. 

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

That makes sense.  Span has certainly been hitting better than either one this past month.  

 

 

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

Turns out, we still aren't as good as the Astros.

 

 

[miguelito 11266]

If Nellie can hit 5 more solo home runs, we're right back in this one.

[elfenix 34331]

edit: wrong thread

Edited August 1, 2018 by elfenix

[Biff Tannen 45696]

Yeah get outta here elfenix!  Let us wallow in our not-as-good-as-the-astros-ness alone.

[spystud13 2371]

Ol’ boy Robbie is working at 3B now too down in the DR. 

[Biff Tannen 45696]

Odd since Seager is now back from paternity leave.

[spystud13 2371]

That .686 OPS ain’t the best, though. 

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

39 minutes ago, spystud13 said:

Ol’ boy Robbie is working at 3B now too down in the DR. 

Spy (as usual) beats me to it.  

 

 

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

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Struggling Felix Hernandez knows he’s pitching for his place in Mariners’ rotation

SEATTLE 

Felix Hernandez has been at his best this season in the most charged environments. Opening Day against the Indians and a home game against the Boston Red Sox were testament to that.

But Thursday’s home start against the Toronto Blue Jays presents another level of emotion. Hernandez is not only pitching for the cheers of the Safeco Field faithful, he very well could be pitching for his future as a member of the Mariners’ rotation.

“I can’t think about that,” Hernandez said, just days after he was sitting on the floor in the clubhouse at Angel Stadium after allowing seven runs in 2 2/3 innings. It was an outing manager Scott Servais called, “noncompetitive.”

“I can’t think about anything right now,” he added. “I got another start Thursday, so I got to go out there and do my job.”

Whether Hernandez should have even earned this opportunity was in doubt until Mariners general manager Jerry Dipoto put it to rest publicly on Monday.

Hernandez’s earned-run average has spiked to a career-high 5.58. Even with as much as he struggled and fought injuries last season, his ERA was still more than a run lower (4.36) in 2016 than this season.

And Hernandez, the former two-time American League ERA champion, was no more embarrassed about his play than against the Angels on Saturday.

“Last year I was hurt, the year before I was hurt and now I’m healthy and the results are not what I want,” Hernandez said. “I just got to figure out what’s going on.

“I’ve been living in the middle of the plate all the time. I just got to command my fastball.”

He insisted his back is fully healthy even after missing a start because of it, though before that he had allowed one run in eight innings against the Rays, one run in seven against the Red Sox, one in five innings against the Yankees and three in six innings against Baltimore.

Hernandez is a long way from his Cy Young form, and the Mariners know that. With their bulked up bullpen, five or six good innings from Hernandez is what they need.

What they can’t handle are starts like the 32-year-old had against the Angels.

“Obviously on Thursday, hopefully we get beyond where he’s been,” Dipoto said. “Particularly his last start. We need him to do those things. The Mariners have relied on Felix for a lot of years to take the ball and we’re going to rely on him again.

“Every time he takes the mound it’s going to mean a lot. But we’re not making any determination beforehand (on whether he’d stay in the rotation). He earns the opportunity to take the ball and he has earned that.

“If Felix gives us a good one, we’re going to be a better team. If he doesn’t, we’re going to have to recover and find another way to answer those innings. We’re just going to take it as very time through the rotation we’re going to assess where we are.”

 

https://www.thenewstribune.com/sports/mlb/seattle-mariners/article215937430.html#navlink=SecList

[miguelito 11266]

On 7/28/2018 at 9:53 PM, miguelito said:

Fucking Felix.

Only gave up 2 in the first inning, didn't get the loss.

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

Dee goes out with an injury, too.  Maybe Cano is going back to 2b after all.

 

 

[Biff Tannen 45696]

44 minutes ago, MC Fresh Breath said:

Dee goes out with an injury, too.  Maybe Cano is going back to 2b after all.

 

 

I hope so.  It doesn't seem right to have him anywhere else.

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

Now we apparently can't beat Toronto.  

[miguelito 11266]

The Mariners are free falling.

Meanwhile, Oakland won't back down, and Houston's running down a dream.

[Biff Tannen 45696]

This team has completely lost its focus.

[miguelito 11266]

Sweet, no-hitter into the 5th.

[Biff Tannen 45696]

I feel like we are on the M's version of the Aggy rollercoaster this season.  And now is the Furk.

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

Ah, a W.   Seager with 2 HR's.

 

Edited August 5, 2018 by MC Fresh Breath

[spystud13 2371]

Servais is gonna get fucking roasted for yanking LeBlanc after only 2 hits & 82 pitches. Pen has been a fucking disaster in the 7th. 

[spystud13 2371]

See? 

 

 

[Biff Tannen 45696]

Well that's fantastic.

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

They're obviously trying to see what they have in these newly acquired bullpen pitchers.  So far, results not very good for the newbies.

 

[miguelito 11266]

Did we save the receipt for some of those guys?

[Biff Tannen 45696]

Yay we won.  So did everyone else.

[MC Fresh Breath 4074]

This is painful. 

[miguelito 11266]

On 7/28/2018 at 9:53 PM, miguelito said:

Fucking Felix.

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